This weekend I'll be headed down to Shenandoah with Brian, Cip, and Sophie. Brian and Cip are my two buddies from home who are headed out west with me. Sophieis the girlfriend. I'm hoping the trip can serve two purposes: 1) to test out our gear and see what kind of shape we are in and 2) to give Sophie a little glimpse of what my summer will be like. The latter is particularly important because she's had virtually no exposure to any of this sort of stuff (when purchasing hiking shoes she said "I wonder what I'll match these with," and was completely serious, lol).
Anyway, we're planning on climbing Old Rag and then getting into the backcountry a bit. It should be a fun weekend if the weather holds and will be a good chance to get my hands dirty again. Pictures and posts will follow the trip.
About the Author
- mwp
- Burlington, Vermont
- I'm an avid outdoorsman, former graduate student, current web entrepreneur, aspiring writer, and sometime traveler. Over the years I've worked 15 different jobs and traveled to 39 states and 12 countries (discounting layovers).
It is too easy to succumb to being an observer of all of this amazing input in life. It is too easy to just watch the show of life, to just take it all in. I could stand in a crowd at the right concert and be so supremely content to just be in the crowd, to feel a part of that crowd, to move with the music and lose yourself in things so completely. But somebody has to play the music. And man. Imagine what it must be like to have that energy come out of you that fills a huge concert hall with people who would say something like, "Man, listen to that album, it's AMAZING!" Ah, but to be the creator of AMAZING! That is the goal.
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